Metamodernism and the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

Authors

  • Smiljka Jovanović SAE Institute Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2021.4.6.57

Keywords:

Metamodernism, historicity, Structure of feeling, Metaxy, abstraction, reconstruction, the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis, Pandemic

Abstract

Metamodernism is understood as the dominant cultural logic of the 21st century. Metamodernism’s breadth and complexity, as well as its theory’s advocacy for contemporaneity, invite for consideration whether the notion could address the most recent global events and the crises after 2020. Therefore, this study designates and explains the five key concepts of metamodernism – metaxy, abstraction, reconstruction, historicity, and a structure of feeling – and uses them to discuss the current state of affairs, the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The study evaluates the interpretative and discursive potentials of metamodernism, finding that the crisis we now live in can be well-conceptualised from the metamodern perspective, yet at the same time the enormous impact of the crisis brings the usual metamodern perspectives into question and puts the key concepts to test.

Author Biography

  • Smiljka Jovanović, SAE Institute Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Smiljka Jovanović graduated in 2009 from the Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade, Department of Musicology. In 2016, she earned her Ph.D. in Theory of Art and Media at the University of Arts in Belgrade with the thesis titled “Issues of Theoretical Appropriation: Carnival and Masquerade in Culture, Arts and Theory”. For the past several years, Jovanović has been teaching at the university level. Her areas of research include contemporary theoretical and cultural readings of arts and media, theories of identity and gender studies, cultural theory and popular culture, as well as music history and theory. Jovanovic has published a number of articles and studies in relevant journals and a series of music critiques and concert booklets. She is the author of the book “Identitetska pozicioniranja Džona Zorna” (Beograd: Faculty of Music Arts, Department of Musicology, 2011).

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15.07.2021

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No. 6 (2021): Music, Art, and Humanities in the Time of Global Crisis

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Metamodernism and the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic. (2021). INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology, 6, 57-74. https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2021.4.6.57
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